- In DaVinci Resolve 9, 10, 11, if you ever had torelink your media in your media pool back tothe media on your hard drives,you know how tedious a process this could be,especially if the editor handed you a project thatwas really sloppy, everything's all over the placein a bunch of different directoriesand you had to use the Change Source Folder command,I'm here to tell you those days are overand we can now do simple, intelligent clip relinking herein DaVinci Resolve 12, let's see how that works.

Now for this demonstration, I've importedfrom the exercise files in the folder for Projects,I've got a DaVinci Resolve projecttitled "Chapter 01a - Relinking."If you want to follow along, feel free to import that.It's going to take us to a media pool that looks like this.I've got a bunch of clips, they're all broken.Why? Because I've changed the media pathand if you take a look at the edit timeline,everything is pretty much offline,so what I need to do is relink these files.

So I'm going to click on one ofthese files, select all, right-click,and there's the Relink Selected Clips commandabove the Change Source Folderwhich is precisely where it should bebecause this is a superior method.I'm going to select it, so now I've got my normal browser,I need to browse to the media location.Except, I don't have to browse to the precise folder.All I have to do is get close towhere the media files actually exist.

I can relink starting from the desktop.I could relink all the way at the top up here,but then Resolve has to dig through tens of thousandsof folders, that's going to take some time.So I want to go just high enough thatit captures all of the media I need to relink to.In this case let's try the desktop, I'll click OK.It's searching the folders.And there we go.There it is, quick, easy, modern relinking,something we've been looking for foreverand I had two file paths going there.

It relinked to my video files and my ProRES (LT) folder,it relinked to the audio in the audio folder,and we didn't have to use thatChange Source Folder command anymore. Yay!

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For over a decade, DaVinci Resolve has been the go-to tool for colorists working on Hollywood films, commercials, and professional corporate video. Now it's available to anyone on a Mac or PC. The latest version, DaVinci Resolve 12, combines its high-end color grading tools with a full-featured nonlinear video-editing environment. You can edit, color correct, color grade, and render a video project without ever leaving the program.

In these tutorials, professional colorist Patrick Inhofer guides viewers through the basics of using DaVinci Resolve 12. Get a look over Patrick's shoulder as he touches on key features in Resolve, while introducing the lingo every colorist needs to understand the program and the workflow. He shows how to import footage, keep it all organized, edit clips in the timeline, and start color grading your project: applying primary and secondary corrections, vignettes, looks, and Power Windows. He also shows how to target corrections with shapes and keys, match shots, and create "hero shots" to jump-start discussions with directors, clients, and colleagues.

Most of the tutorials are compatible with both DaVinci Resolve and DaVinci Resolve Studio, the paid version of the software. If you have already watched DaVinci Resolve 11 Essential Training, check out "What's New in DaVinci Resolve 12" to brush up on the updates, as well as the new chapter on DaVinci 12.5.

Topics include:

Understanding the DaVinci Resolve interface

Building a Resolve system

Working in different use modes

Creating new projects

Importing footage

Editing and trimming footage

Preparing timelines for color correction

Analyzing color, contrast, and exposure with scopes

Adjusting hue and saturation

Understanding nodes

Performing secondary color corrections

Targeting corrections

Matching shots

Building looks

Rendering individual shots and self-contained movies

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Q: This course was updated on 11/15/2016. What changed?

A: We added a new chapter, "DaVinci Resolve 12.5 Essential Updates." DaVinci Resolve 12.5 introduced nearly 250 new features. Blackmagic also tweaked over 1,000 other elements, speeding up the software, fixing bugs, and making tweaks to the User Interface. In this new chapter, author Patrick Inhofer walks through the updates you need to know when learning how to use the latest version of DaVinci Resolve.